posted January 09, 2012 12:12 PM            

i went to a catholic all boys school from elementary to half of high school. i got kicked out for having bad deportment but i didn't hate it.

i wasn't the best of students coz like on this forum i go off topic alot and blab random weird things lol. but i had good grades and was class president and part of the student council. i too questioned my teacher coz he was an older guy who learned how to teach from being a janitor, which is quite an accomplishment really. the thing is he was a literature teacher in my native tongue and i feel he learned the literature he was teaching because he memorized what the passages meant from other people's analysis or perhaps even his i dunno. but he was so closed to accepting other interpretations.

i admit i was abit mean to him because i found out he couldn't detect sarcasm. he wasn't autistic. he just didn't understand it. so some days i'd crack a joke and everyone would laugh but he'd be puzzled by it. he also hated that he had to deal with me personally coz i was class president lol!

i did well in my next school and in college coz there wasn't much control. i mean that if you failed it's nobody's fault but your own.

i really dunno about the competition part. it's a huge incentive to me. one of the articles also mentioned that shanghai, china topped the tests while finland came in 2nd.